How much is distilled water in your area?

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For whatever reason, the price of the distilled water I buy has gone up about 20% this year. Not that it's a big amount of money or anything, I'm just wondering why, and if this is happening everywhere.

I always buy the store-branded 2.5 gallon jug with a built-in pour spout, now over 3 dollars. Maybe it's the price of the jug that has gone up, not the water?
 
Last time I bought a gallon (~ a year ago in a local supermarket) it was around $1. I'll have to check it again in a few days. I'm curious.

What state are you in?
 
Fifty cents a gallon through a self serve machine.
 
I pay either $.89 or $.99 a gallon depending on which store I buy from.
 
Here in New Zealand - I buy it in a ten litre for about $7 NZ. I think thats around 2.64 gallons . . . converting our dollar to US, its around $4.70 US.

Aaryn NZ. :xyxthumbs:
 
I have a feeling it's the cost of container, not water.
Here:
Hvy Clear Plastic $1.19 gal.
(frosted) Similiar to Gal. Milk -1gal .89 cents.
2.5 gals Hvy Guage Plastic - $2.49
 
Bought it yesterday, since using city water in our Keurig makes them last about as long as a keg at a frat party. .79 a gallon. Has floated .79-.89 forever here.
 
Its free for me... I get it from work by the gallons. Only thing I have to supply are the containers.
 
I have a question about the container that SR99 posted about, USplastics has another 2 1/2 gallon container with a spigot that costs like $12. It doesn't look as nice, but why and the s**t is that one $200? I'm about to get some 5 liter containers with spigots just so my OCD can be satisified with all my bulk chemicals being in matching containers.
 
Chicago suburbs: $1.29/gal at Walgreens. Don't use a ton of it, so it's fine.
 
quebert said:
I have a question about the container that SR99 posted about, USplastics has another 2 1/2 gallon container with a spigot that costs like $12. It doesn't look as nice, but why and the s**t is that one $200? I'm about to get some 5 liter containers with spigots just so my OCD can be satisified with all my bulk chemicals being in matching containers.
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As best I could figure, that's the going rate for the autoclavable polypropylene 2.5 gallon bottles with spigots. $200 may be a little high, but all the others I found were well over $100 per bottle. No idea whether there is really some expensive process involved in making them, or just a monopoly on the bottle manufacturing, or whether the people who buy these all work in labs with deep pockets and no one complains about the price.

PS I saw those other/cheaper 2.5 gallon containers and might pick some up myself.
 
A detailing shop a town over from me has a DI water dispenser and they charge 5 cents a gallon. Dunno how they make any money, but that's a hellova deal.
 
quebert said:
A detailing shop a town over from me has a DI water dispenser and they charge 5 cents a gallon. Dunno how they make any money, but that's a hellova deal.
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I'd fill a 120 gallon water tank!
 
quebert said:
A detailing shop a town over from me has a DI water dispenser and they charge 5 cents a gallon. Dunno how they make any money, but that's a hellova deal.
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Maybe they haven't done the math and are selling it at below their cost. But I guess they probably don't sell much anyway.
 
I use the DI for mixing purposes. It's in no way economical for a hobbiest to use DI for washing. Certainly for waterless... Maybe rinseless, but nothing else. I don't have a line filter either. If I did more, that'd be the way of go.
 
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